Nairobi attack: Hostages found "hanging from ceiling" with their "eyes gouged out" as full details of horror emerge

Hostages inside the Westgate shopping mall were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling and had their eyes gouged out, it emerged today.

Victims of the four day terror siege were also discovered dismembered and had their fingers removed with pliers. Some male victims were also found castrated.

The gruesome scenes inside the mall were discovered by horrified doctors and soldiers who entered the building once the siege ended.

Soldiers initially described the "scene from a horror movie"  but only now have the full, horrific details emerged.

Rescue workers discovered children dead in fridges with knives embedded in their bodies. Dead terrorists bodies were also burned - with the last extremist left thought to have set fire to them to protect identities.

This image shows the destruction at the Westgate Shopping Centre

Speaking to the Daily Mail, one Kenyan doctor, who asked not to be named, said: "You find people with hooks hanging from the roof.

"They removed eyes, ears, nose. Actually if you look at all the bodies, unless those ones that were escaping, fingers are cut by pliers, the noses are ripped by pliers."

It also emerged today that the al Shabaab militants used a large machine gun during the attack.

U.S officials said the terrorists would have spent a great deal of time planning and staging the siege in Nairobi.

They say the militants may have moved a large machine gun and supplies of ammunition into place somewhere inside the mall days or weeks before the attack - perhaps by renting a shop or secretly using space provided by a sympathetic shop owner or employee.

A fire caused the car park roof to collapse into the centre

The first pictures of the wreckage of the building showed piles of bodies strewn across the floor.

Security forces around the globe are now locked in a desperate hunt to find British muslim terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite as officials warned she could strike again.

Interpol issued a warrant for the 29-year-old Muslim convert, dubbed the White Widow, six days after she was suspected of playing a key role in the al-Shabaab massacre of at least 67 people, including Brits, at a shopping centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kenyan security officials issued a Red Notice asking other countries to help track down the fanatic - who has become the world's most wanted woman since the horrific bloodbath.

Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said: "Kenya has activated a global "tripwire" for this fugitive.

"Through the Interpol Red Notice, Kenyan authorities have ensured all 190 member countries are aware of the danger posed by this woman, not just across the region but also worldwide."

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